Billions of dollars are poured into global development every year, but results are lacking, says economist Karthik Muralidharan. Diving into an example with public education, he outlines how smarter resource allocation and evidencebased interventions, like learning software that dynamically responds to students and teaches at the level that’s right for them, can accelerate global development worldwide — not by spending more, but by spending smarter. (Recorded at TED2024 on April 16, 2024)

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